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To get from your house to your school, you ride your bicycle 6 blocks

west and 8 blocks north. A new road is being built that will go directly

from your house to your school, creating a right triangle. When you

take the new road to school, how many fewer blocks will you be

riding to school and back?

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Find the missing length of the right triangle if its dimensions are:

Peter and Paul are standing together talking. When they leave, Peter walks 5 kilometers east to his

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house and Paul walk 12 kilometers north to his house. How many kilometers do they live from each

other if you take the direct rout? (Hint: It may help to draw a picture).

Name a way that someone could use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve a “real life” problem.

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